First of all, I want to apologise to subscribers for the @samarkeolog tweet archive “spam”. I turned off every notification I could, precisely in order to save (Twitter) followers and (Facebook) community members from hearing about the (real but uninteresting) posts, but I couldn’t stop e-mails to subscribers.

Second, I’m in the process of redeveloping my blog, which I will explain in deeply dull detail in the following post. Briefly, I’m revising my blog (and @conflictantiq Twitter feed) to try to document looting and destruction of cultural property in crises and conflicts as-it-happens. I’d be grateful for any comments (about the subject, the presentation, the delivery…); I’m keen to make my material as useful as possible.
In order to combine timely sharing with easily-used archiving, without information overload, I will tweet information as soon as possible (with tweets posting on Facebook and streaming on Conflict Antiquities), and I will blog that news daily.

To avoid spamming my subscribers anymore, and to avoid WordPress again suspending my access because they ‘have a concern about some of the content on [my] blog’ (after my archive posts triggered a spam-blocking mechanism), I’ve embedded my existing @conflictantiq tweets here.

[I’ve moved my tweets about cultural property crime in secure societies to a separate post where I explain how the crimes are equally wrong, but not equally urgent. Where possible (and appropriate), I’ll continue to “rehabilitate” my archive in regional/thematic posts.]

the destruction of cultural property and the trade in illicit antiquities